Snoopy said:
aLkaLiNE said:
If they want an X1 in everyone's living room then they need to earn/deserve it. The people have and will continue to vote with their wallet. Since gamers are, relative to other industries, FAR more aware of the products they buy, I'm confident that MS would have better sales if their public perception wasn't utter crap world wide except two territories. I have yet to see a positive contribution by them toward a gaming future that benefits me more, not less.
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Achievements, Online multiplayer becoming big on consoles, Western games taking over the industry, multi media in software like netflix,New and cool exciting UI overhauls, hard drives, using pc architecture to ease game development, ect..... Sorry, but these are huge acievements in my opinion and they will have cloud technology to push boundaries in gaming soon. Also, this earn/deserve is very opinion base and dumb. Microsoft is starting to realize that they should'nt play by everyone's rules. When you play by everyone's rules you typically lose. Thats why they are taking this industry by force. Minecraft and Gears of war isn't small potatos ips.
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I'll give them credit for achievements, and introducing the first hard drives to home console. That's about it. Online gaming was also on PS2, was free, and with the way that internet was developing at the time, there's absolutely no chance that online gaming wouldn't have been a big part of the 7th gen. So to that end, on the online multiplayer front, MS made popular charging for an online subscription. Again that's not a benefit. They put behind this gold paywall Netflix originally. That's not a benefit, that's basically saying that you have to pay us in order to access this other content that also requires a monthly fee. Nothing about that is revolutionary. Nada. Zilch. And multimedia features? What do you mean? The PS3 came out the box with media support for pretty much everything and could be turned into a full on Linux based PC. MS did -not- make multi media popular on consoles, they were just riding that wave. Which was also something that was bound to happen, case in point being the software features available on the PS1, further expanded upon on the PS2 and completely realized on the PS3.
New and exciting UI overhauls? I feel like that's a stretch. Many people preferred the old 360's blade UI over the NXE. I remember that. I also know that up until recently, the X1's UI has been a sloppy and sluggish mess - designed by a through and through software company! It's borderline hilarious honestly. That should have been sorted out WELL before launch, not two years after. And my dude, all that cloud PR talk has been smoke blown up your ass. That talk dates back over two years now and there's still nothing to show for it. Ironically speaking it's actually Sony that is using cloud based technology to allow people to stream full fledged PS3 titles to TVs without the need for a console. What is MS using the cloud for so far? How have they pioneered or innovated on that front? I'm pretty sure the 'cloud' is just PR speak for dedicated servers lol. Nothing crazy there.
On one last note, MS has never played by anyones rules but their own. That is EXACTLY why they're in the situation they're in in regards to a declining userbase, in regards to lagging 3rd party support, in regards to lagging 1st party support, consumer base retention. This is, 100% on them and the strategy they've employed. If anything Sonys starting to play more by MS rules, not the inverse dude. Timed exclusivity, moneyhatting, paywalls, these are ripped straight out of MS playbook and now Sonys doing all that better. I don't agree with it but it no longer affects me because my console of choice now participates in all that shadyness.
